My company has me scrubbing data off a few years old SuperMicro server with 4 Intel Xeon 3.06GHz processors, 4GB of memory (2 sticks of 2GB DDR333 and 6 open slots), 8 Ultra320 bays with hot pluggable sleds, and 7 Seagate Cheetah ST373307LC drives at 10,000rpm with 68.36GB each (the 8th drive failed), Adaptec 2010S RAID PCI card, two ethernet ports, 6 PCI slots (one filled with the RAID card), VGA, Serial (db9), parallel, 2 USB, 2 PS/2 (keyboard and mouse), 3 power plugs (needs two of the three), CD-ROM, floppy. The catch, it burns a whopping 3.6 amps when it is idle!
Question is, what do you do with such a machine? It’s odd that a circa 2002 linux server is already considered obsolete because it burns so much power (it’s also quite noisy). It was only a few years ago that I was paying around $400 a drive for the Seagate Cheetahs even without mounting sleds!
I have a sad feeling that the parts are worth more than the whole.
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